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“My dad says he’s going to make this into an office,” Gibby said as she cobbled together a makeshift wardrobe of cargo pants, wrinkled shorts, and a few T-shirts.

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Three governments in France have collapsed in less than a year, as they struggled to cobble together support in the fragmented National Assembly to pass a budget and narrow France’s widening deficit.

BLS statisticians will have to cobble together the report after asking businesses and employees well after the fact about who was employed.

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We can see that Shakespeare really was an upstart compared to the Oxford and Cambridge wits, but also how he cobbled together a practical, hands-on education in Shoreditch.

Merely signaling intent to filibuster now shifts the burden to the majority, who must cobble together 60 votes just to proceed to a vote that only requires a simple majority for passage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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